How a Particle Broke Physics - The OH MY GOD Particle EXPLAINED

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The Amaterasu Particle, one of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever to hit the Earth has been identified. The particle carried 40 million times more energy than the Large Hadron Collider can produce, and left scientists baffled by the data. It's been over 3 decades since the discovery of the record-breaking 'Oh My God' Particle, are we any closer to understanding these anomalies?

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0:00 The ‘Oh My God’ Particle
1:09 The Fly’s Eye Detector
4:21 Ad read
5:30 Cosmic Rays & how we record them
7:56 Leading theory about the Amaterasu Particle
9:10 The Telescope Array & locating the particle source

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All Comments (21)
  • @wolfthorn1
    My farticles travel faster than the speed of smell. "OMG!" is the standard reaction.
  • @pyne1976
    Black hole Slingshot. If a particle is caught by the curvature of a black hole but just avoids the horizon, a tremendous amount of acceleration would be imparted on it.
  • @Constantin314
    as far as i know, Ursa Major is a galactic highway so, pretty sure this is residual matter from the warp drive, klingons usually, they don't care too much about the space ecology
  • @justincase5272
    Given several black holes orbiting one another, and trillions of particles entering their realm every second, it is entirely conceivable a particle would enter in such a way that it undergoes multiple gravitational slingshots near the event horizons, giving it near-lightspeed velocity.
  • @matthorrocks6517
    Should be called the bowling ball dropped at chest height particle.
  • @ShaneTyas
    i really like the bouncing analogy. makes a lot of sense
  • @tonyl9051
    "Ludicrous speed" LOL! Nice reference to Space Balls
  • @alexharvey9721
    It's impossible given our knowledge of physics, but that doesn't stop us suggesting possibilities that still don't explain it.
  • Thats great, ive created a um blackhole in a garage using IR escape velocity spinning faster than light on microscale, light couldnt catch up with spinning holo stroboscope at 300000 tachymeter.etc Also two geiger tube interferometrically will make cosmicray detector with theremino software, no scintillators used
  • @SteelWolf13
    03:42 Hmm that does not looks like a square grid that i'm familiar with. Looks like a stop sign had a baby with the stop hand icon. Good and informative vid.
  • Your description of the plasma particles being bounced and accelerating between the shockwave and the surface of an e.g. star sounds a lot like a Laser. Sure, it's not light amplification, but perhaps could be called a Particle Hyper-Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation: A Phaser :-) ! Beam me up Scotty!
  • @rayoflight62
    I'm old enough to remember a pop music group from the '80s, a group with a strange name: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Change the first word into "Orchestrated" and we have a description of what is ongoing: stellar levels of energy exchanges occurring outside of stars, within the vast darkness of the Universe. An example, the surface of the Sun is at 6000 °C but it is surrounded by the Sun Corona at 1,000,000 °C. This to say, the energy has ways to travel from a very energetic body to a far region of the Space and manifests there as a stationary volume where the EM fields are ludicrously strong. It is not necessarily a front, but a series of stationary sectors with increasing charge, so that a proton is accelerated sequentially - just like in a railgun. In my hypothesis, the particle is not bouncing like the photon between the two mirrors of a laser, but is proceeding like an electron between the dinodes of a photomultiplier. Thank you Prof. Miles for your exemplary videos. Greetings, Anthony
  • @anatman6304
    My first guess is that these are particles accelerated in a cumulative manner over time by a supermassive black hole that "escape" via some process not yet known, but perhaps akin to jets from the poles.
  • I have to think there's some natural particle accelerator in the sky that we just haven't discovered yet. The first thing I think of is - do we know what happens when two black holes collide? If a proton is whizzing around the accretion disk, I know we're taught that nothing can escape a black hole, but another black hole probably has enough pull to strip mass away and the interaction of the gravitational fields is likely to let some rogue extemely-high-velocity particles escape
  • @waynekellman3225
    My guess, as a person with no real knowledge on this stuff, is they escape from black hole. Like they are circling inside the accretion disk of the black hole and getting a super gravitational bump before escaping. That's why we can't find the origin. They are from black holes that don't have a visible accretion disk. There are a ton of black holes out there and most of them are invisible.
  • @j.lo.5784
    It´s a warp drive signature. When the warp field is slitly flucuating a relativitic particle may escape.
  • @artdehls9100
    Great description of the speed of that particle. I mean, I knew already but, GAH!
  • @drscott1
    There are some serious misunderstandings with regard to physics. Until we get them straight the science community will always dumbfounded by observations One important misunderstanding is the nature of em radiation. It is NOT a velocity in vacuum; it IS a rate of induction. Consider the implications of this difference.
  • @pudder68
    ok stupid question time.. if E=mc2 and this is super high energy .. could this help explain missing mass in the universe? or dark energy ?